Royally failed #royaltyreadathon and #bannedbooksweek

I was very excited about #bannedbooksweek and #royaltyreadathon.  I set up my TBR.  I hashtaged on twitter.  I was ready.  I decided to read the banned books first.  I cheated and started Saturday evening.  I read until 2 am, slept for a while, woke up on Sunday, and had breakfast.  My husband is working on his Masters, so he started studying, and I sat down to read.  I got through The Golden Compass and The Subtle Knife.  I decided to take a break and we had dinner and watched Assassin's Creed.  I figured that I could easily finish The Amber Spyglass on Monday and start on The Royalty Readathon.

I have Fibromyalgia.  Monday the barometer plummeted, and a storm parked over me.  I went into a horrible flare up.  When a flare-up is really bad, I can hardly get out of bed.  My hands are so sore, it is hard to even hold a glass of water.  The brain fog gets debilitating.  Reading is out of the question.  Tuesday was the same.  The weather was supposed to clear on Wednesday, but it didn't and Thursday was even worse.  Finally, late Thursday afternoon it cleared and the forecast for Friday was good.  Of course, it does not get better immediately, but I was so hopeful that Friday would bring some improvement.  THANKFULLY, I am starting to feel marginally better.  At least, I can type.

I might try to read one book from my #royalityreadathon TBR.  I'm not sure.  I have so much housework to catch up on.  Plus, the forecast looks like next week will bring more crap.  I'll see what I can do. 

SO, I royally failed at the #royalityreadathon and I fell short on the #bannedbooksweek.

Let's hope that #victober and #spookathon workout better.  My TBR for those challenges will be posted tonight or tomorrow. 

#bannedbookweek and #royaltyreadathon

I am going to attempt two readathons Sept. 24-30.  The first one is #bannedbookweek.  I'm reading Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy.  I want to reread this in preparation for the Oct. 19, 2017 release of The book of Dust:  La Belle Sauvage.  I am ridiculously excited about this new trilogy that will take us back to the parallel world of Lyra.

My other readathon is #royaltyreadathon.  This is hosted by the blog To Be Read run by Kati.  Here are the challenges and my choice of books.

READ A BOOK WITH A HIDDEN ROYAL HERITAGE

The Girl of Fire and Thorns by Rae Carson

READ A BOOK WITH A ROYAL TITLE (“QUEEN”, “KING”, “PRINCESS”, ETC)

Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard

READ A BOOK WITH A CROWN ON THE COVER

Glass Sword by Victoria Aveyard

READ A FAIRYTALE RETELLING FEATURING YOUR FAVOURITE FAIRYTALE ROYAL

Girls of Snow and Glass by Mellisa Bashardoust

PURPLE IS THE COLOUR OF ROYALTY – READ A PURPLE BOOK

The Final Empire by Brian Sanderson 

8-books in 7-days.  I really am a glutton for punishment.  Wish me luck and join in either one...or both!